If anyone is in the DC area this weekend our club, the Japan Rail Modelers of Washington DC, will have a small Ttrak setup at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art this weekend for the Cherry Blossom Festival event from 11:30a-3p. iIts a fun event with Taiko drummers, Dances, and music. We have done a number of different cherry blossom festival events here in DC [its a month long thing here] over the years, but this is the first time for us to get into a Smithsonian!
We will also be at the huge Sakura Matsuri street festival on Pennsylvania Ave April 12-13 with Ttrak as well. This one is over a hundred thousand people and quite an event.
It’s really fun to bring model trains with Ttrak to these public [non train] events. Folks are not expecting to see model trains and are very surprised and get big O mouths and always say oh how I remember my trains as a kid or my dad had a layout in the basement! Really fun to talk to people about the hobby and plant seeds out there to bring new folks in. Of course we are a super kid pleaser and these events tend to have a lot of kids.
Cheers
Jeff Reynolds
